Honestly speaking, I feel like my greatest success is yet to come. I believe that I will face greater challenges that will give me a greater sense of satisfaction in overcoming them and these challenges will allow me to grow a person. My greatest achievement so far is overcoming the fear of failure. I was afraid of failure because I have a pretty quiet life and have always excelled academically and so have only had a few brushes with failure before. Because I was constantly surrounded by highly successful people, failure was. I was afraid of being rejected, of disappointing others, of not reaping the desired reward for the hard work I had put in, and of embarrassing myself. I was quite upset when I only got an A2 for Higher Chinese, one of my weakest subjects as the result was not proportional to the amount of effort I invested. I would write 2 essays weekly, conscientiously practice mock papers, follow current affairs and reflect on them, and compile/memorize a list of useful phrases and meaning of unfamiliar words. However, it seemed that others could achieve more with less effort...